International incidents – Page 2

Italy!

Next month Hailey and Victor and I are going to Italy to visit an old friend. It is the first time we’ve ever been and will probably be the only time since we don’t travel much so we’re going to try to do Venice, Florence, Pisa, Rome and Pompeii in less than a week. ThatContinue reading “Italy!”

Japan is weird. But so am I so it worked out shockingly well.

I’m dealing with a nasty case of jet lag (which Victor says doesn’t exist and is just an excuse for sleeping until noon and maybe it is but it is a very good one) but it was totally worth it because Japan was totally fucking weird, but in the best possible way. I documented aContinue reading “Japan is weird. But so am I so it worked out shockingly well.”

JAPAN!

We’re leaving tomorrow to take Hailey to Japan for a week and I’m full of anxiety because I am a terrible traveler but Hailey and Victor are okay with me hiding in the hotel so it’s good that they have low expectations. That said, I really want to go to the Parasite Museum and watchContinue reading “JAPAN!”

Weird in every language

I don’t how many languages my books have been published in but I am always amazed at the strange and wonderful covers that show up in all the various countries. Today I got to see the Russian cover for Let’s Pretend This Never Happen and it’s pretty fucking glorious: Victor had questions about why RussiaContinue reading “Weird in every language”

Finding light

I got distracted by my dog’s vagina (if I had a nickel for every time that’s happened, right?) but I’m back to sum up the final part of our week in Europe. If you missed the first two parts they’re here and here. PARIS We took a train from London to Paris and went through theContinue reading “Finding light”

London is beautiful…but a little too peoply.

(Click here for part 1) SO…where were we? Oh, we were in Scotland at the train station and I was thinking that Scotland would always be my favorite vacation spot and then someone told me that the national animal of Scotland is the unicorn (true story) and also that Scotland recently had to shut downContinue reading “London is beautiful…but a little too peoply.”